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Mon Jan-30-06 08:01 PM
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Exhaustion has sure set in, but this was but one battle. Remember two words: "Sustainable Opposition." That is what is needed. All else is but a procedural matter. Keep this thing going.
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Mon Jan-30-06 08:07 PM
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1. For an opposition, we need elected officials who will actually oppose. |
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Edited on Mon Jan-30-06 08:07 PM by FormerRepublican
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Mon Jan-30-06 08:09 PM
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2. we need to keep this momentum going--not stop now. |
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Mon Jan-30-06 08:16 PM
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4. There are a whole host of organizations online and in the real world |
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that can keep this moving. But they are acting as if they shot their wad on one fight. The eye on the prize must be aimed at the legislature and the executive. And then turned toward framing a progressive agenda. Roe V. Wade can become settled law if it were legislated (even though that was not necessary under the former court system).
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Mon Jan-30-06 08:14 PM
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3. All opposition begins in the agora with the people. |
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They splinter off their allies in positions of power to form a coalition. Corporate lobbyists and the rightwing have done this for years, and progressive reformers used to be very successful at it. There are 25 folks in the Senate who clearly get it. What happened this past week was an example of what opposition does. Now it must be institutionalized in order to sustain the pressure on the legislature as a whole. We lost the courts for a generation. We can not lose the legislature any longer.
We must build the opposition. The opportunities are there.
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